Atlanta Airport Power Outage Traps Travelers in Planes

An 11-hour power outage at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Sunday, December 17 stranded thousands of passengers inside terminals and in planes on the tarmac.<a href="http://www.11alive.com/article/news/nation-now/atlanta-power-outage-more-than-1100-flights-canceled/465-9e4bbadc-6150-4d83-9971-f4eb14bbff66" target="_blank">More than 1,000 flights</a> to and from Atlanta were canceled, with many diverted to nearby airports. Passengers used flashlights on their phones to navigate in the dark, and <a href=":http://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/17/us/atlanta-airport-power-outage/index.html" >one person told <span class="caps">CNN</span></a> that the situation “felt totally apocalyptic”.Power was restored to one concourse <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/latest-ripple-effect-airport-power-outage-51850104" target="_blank">at around 7:45 pm</a>, more than six hours after the outage occurred in the afternoon, and fully reinstated <a href="https://www.